smart_search
Intelligent search with automatic query planning and reflection-based refinement. Iteratively improves results until adequate.
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What smart_search does on Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server
AI agents call smart_search to retrieve information from Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why smart_search is rated Low
This tool retrieves and queries data from the knowledge graph memory system without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing external operations. It is a search/retrieval function analogous to 'search' or 'query' operations. The 'automatic query planning and reflection-based refinement' describes internal optimization of read operations, not side effects.
From the tool's definition Tool performs 'Intelligent search with automatic query planning and reflection-based refinement' and 'Iteratively improves results until adequate'.
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The rule that runs smart_search safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For smart_search, this is the rule to start with:
smart_search is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server, apply this rule, and every smart_search call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about smart_search
Intelligent search with automatic query planning and reflection-based refinement. Iteratively improves results until adequate. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for smart_search: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server. Nothing to install.
smart_search is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the smart_search rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for smart_search. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
smart_search is provided by the Enhanced Knowledge Graph Memory Server MCP server (danielsimonjr/memory-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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